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This report discusses a suitable and working solution for the semantic integration of dispersed, medical relational databases by coupling the databases to a medical ontology. We will demonstrate how this can be done by means of a case study, and how the coupling result can be deployed to query a relational database at the ontology level. Next to that, we will introduce a coupling language, and a discussion on how to integrate the language in two ontology models.
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Deray, T., Verheyden, P. (2003). Towards a Semantic Integration of Medical Relational Databases by Using Ontologies: A Case Study. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On The Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2003: OTM 2003 Workshops. OTM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2889. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39962-9_25
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